Could live -- did live --
Could die -- did die --
Could smile upon the whole
Through faith in one he met not,
To introduce his soul.
(The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson)
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Not to discover weakness is The Artifice of strength.Emily Dickinson
But during March and April
None stir abroad
Without a cordial interview
With God.
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Nods from the Gilded pointers --
Nods from the Seconds slim --
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life --
And Him --
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Is Immortality a bane
That men are so oppressed?
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The smallest Housewife in the grass,
Yet take her from the Lawn
And somebody has lost the face
That made Existence -- Home!
Emily Dickinson
She rose to his requirement, dropped The playthings of her life To take the honorable work Of woman and of wife.
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